Clothes-hook.



A. K. BUDD, DECD.

E. W. BUDD, ADMINISTRATOR.

CLOTHES HOOK. APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, I913.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

Snow W61,

AK. Budd,

- ED STATES PATENT OFFIC.

ALICE K. BUDD, OF DENVER, COLORADO; EDWARD W. BUDD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID ALICE K. BUDD, DECEASED.

CLOTHES-HOOK.

Application filed April 19, 1913.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALICE K. BUDD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a hook for supporting clothes and the like.

The invention embodies, among other features, the provision of a hook for use in closets and other places where it is desired to support clothes and which is preferably made of a single piece of material bent to form prongs which support the clothes, the hook being preferably fashioned from a strong wire and of a simple and durable construction, while at the same time the hook can be cheaply manufactured.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of a modified form of hook of the kind that is employed to depend from a shelf or the like; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the hook disclosed in Fig. 3.

Referring to the views, I disclose a hook 14 formed of a single piece of material 15 to provide a prong 16 and a second or auxiliary prong 17. The formation of the. hook is accomplished by having a piece of material 15 threaded at an end a and which I will call the stem of the hook. After the threaded end a has been formed the piece of material is extended downwardly and curved and bent upwardly and then bent upon itself to form a prong member Z), after which the piece of material is again bent upon itself to form a second prong member 0, the said prong members 6' and 0 being formed to project upwardly and spaced apart and extending in diverging relation to form the prong 16 of the hook 142. The piece of material is then bent backwardly upon itself and is bent substantially in the form of an arc, after which it is again bent upon itself to form a prong member d and then again bent upon itself to form a prong member 6, the prong members (5 and 0 being similar to the prong members 5 and 0 and forming Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

Serial No. 762,288.

the second or auxiliary prong 17. The piece of material is now bent upon itself and extends along that portion of the piece of material forming the heretofore mentioned are until the initial point of bending of the same is reach-ed, after which the other end f of the piece of material is looped and bent around the arc portion of the piece of material at the medial portion of the arc and adjacent the inner end of the same, thus forming the complete hook 14. If desirable, a piece of clothing such as a coat can be readily supported on one of the prong members and another coat supported on the adjacent prong member so that the hook can readily support four pieces of clothing if desired, and it will be apparent that by forming the hook in the manner mentioned,

an article of simple and durable construc tion is provided and which can be cheaply manufactured to accomplish the desired result.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a clothes hook comprising a single piece of material having a threaded end constituting a vertical stem, with said piece of material bent at the lower end of the stem and curved upwardly to form one side of a prong member and then bent to form the other side thereof, said piece of material being continued beyond the stem to form a side of an opposed prong member and then bent upon itself to form the other side thereof, with the end of the piece of material twisted around the sides of the first mentioned prong member adjacent the lower end of the stem, and forked members, one formed at each end of each prong member by bending inwardly the portions of the prong members at the points where said piece of material is looped to form the sides of the prong members, said forked members relatively diverging, with the sides of one prong member lying in the vertical plane of the sides of the other prong member.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALICE K. BUDD.

Witnesses:

LAURA B. FOWLER, JENNIE MONUTT.

Copies of this patent ma; be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

